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September 4, 2009

New Blog Post by Michael Kessler: Big City Neighbors Stop Attacker

My friends back home in Indiana often ask how I can stand living in the big, anonymous city, where no one pays attention to others or helps anyone else. They couldn't be more wrong about the city. When bad things happen, the neighbors in my community show the basic instinct towards compassion and protecting the dignity of others that I saw in my small town neighbors...

August 31, 2009

José Casanova Interview with Miroslav Volf about Shortcomings of Secularization Thesis

On August 31, 2009, José Casanova spoke with Miroslav Volf about the shortcomings of the secularization thesis, transformations in our understanding of modernity, and the relationship of democracy and faith in our globalized world.

July 21, 2009

José Casanova Chapter on Nativism and the Politics of Gender in Catholicism and Islam

José Casanova contributes a chapter entitled "Nativism and the Politics of Gender in Catholicism and Islam" to the book Gendering Religion and Politics: Untangling Modernities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), edited by Hanna Herzog and Ann Braude.

June 6, 2009

José Casanova on "The Politicization of Religion: Public Religions Revisited” at Berlin Conference

José Casanova lectured on "The Politicization of Religion: Public Religions Revisited” at a conference in Berlin on “Religion Revisited: Women’s Rights and the Political Instrumentalization of Religion,” sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and held June 5-6, 2009.

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February 13, 2025

Tom Gjelton Selected as the Inaugural Sakka Family Religion and International Journalism Fellow

The Berkley Center and Georgetown's Journalism Program in the College of Arts & Sciences is pleased to announce that distinguished journalist Tom Gjelten will join Georgetown as the first Sakka Family Religion and International Journalism Fellow.

February 5, 2025

Rev. Gerard J. McGlone Calls for Victim-Centered Reforms in Anglican Abuse Scandals

Berkley Center Research Fellow Rev. Gerald J. McGlone, S.J., has been quoted in an article by Religion News Service about recent abuse cases within Anglican denominations.

February 4, 2025

Jerome Copulsky Discusses His Book on Podcast

Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky joined Mark Noll and James Patterson on the Law & Liberty Podcast to discuss his new book American Heretics (2024).

Cardinal Robert McElroy speaking in front of a podium in Copley Formal Lounge

January 6, 2025

Georgetown Welcomes Cardinal Robert McElroy as New Archbishop of Washington

Over the past decade, McElroy has visited Georgetown and engaged with events hosted by the Berkley Center and the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. He also contributed a chapter to the Georgetown University Press book A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament, co-edited by the late Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., then a Berkley Center senior fellow.